Attitudes toward women and DV

Rural attitudes toward domestic violence . . .complete article
Marion County (Florida) has consistently had a higher rate of domestic violence crimes than the state rate. In 2006, for example, Marion had the 15th highest rate among Florida’s 67 counties.
The good news? Marion’s and Florida’s rate went down from 1997 to 2006.
The bad news? Marion still [...]

Little girls killed in rural Oklahoma

FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S.
http://www.foxnews. com/story/ 0,2933,364582, 00.html
Monday, Jun 9, 2008
Police Search for Motive in Double Slayings of Oklahoma Girls
Oklahoma police are searching for a motive in the double slayings of two young girls found dead Sunday night in a ditch along a rural road.
Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, and Skyla Whitaker, 11, were discovered by a relative [...]

War on Women by Brian Vallee

The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hursham, and Criminal Domestic Violence In Canadian Homes
 
Brian Vallee, who writes his books to bring attention to violence against women and children with the hope that it will end, has recently released The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hursham, and Criminal Domestic Violence In Canadian Homes.
 
He [...]

Office on Violence Against Women Announces Online Fact Sheet for Anonymous Reporting and Forensic Examinations

June 5, 2008 – The Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (“VAWA 2005″), 42 U.S.C. Section 3796gg-4(d), provides that states may not “require a victim of sexual assault to participate in the criminal justice system or cooperate with law enforcement in order to be provided with a forensic medical exam, [...]

Gov: DV is a public health emergency

Massachusetts Gov. Patrick declares domestic violence emergency
June 05, 2008
Link
BOSTON – In the wake of the murder of a Holyoke woman, Gov. Deval L. Patrick today declared a public health emergency on domestic violence.
“We have a public health emergency on our hands,” Patrick said at a press conference. “This is something that affects us all.” [...]

Pets and farm animals: collateral victims of domestic abuse

From a Salon article on domestic animal abuse
. . . . .researchers are beginning to understand that “with devastating frequency, animals are the collateral victims of domestic violence.” Abusers “torture or kill [dogs and cats, lizards and rabbits, horses and other farm animals], or threaten to do so, in order to maintain control of their [...]

Boston Herald Article: Sometimes no warning signs

Sometimes, the warning signs don’t show up
By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald
Tuesday, June 3, 2008. Do these women suspect and not tell? Is there not some change in attitude, subtle or obvious, from a husband tried-and-true to one trolling Web sites detailing how to murder your wife and get away with it? A harsher tone, a hardened [...]

Safe House – A new mystery book

Writer’s Exchange Releases Mystery About Battered Women
(Note: SHARE, Inc. has not reviewed this book and has no comment on it at this time. Information presented here is from the Writers Exchange web site.)
Christine Duncan’s novel, Safe House, is set in a battered women’s shelter. The heroine is a counselor at the shelter.
“I wanted to [...]

Victim privacy and the federal REAL ID law

Privacy and victim advocates are concerned about the ability of victims to keep their addresses private after the implementation the federal REAL ID law. It establishes standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and personal identification cards.
REAL ID compliant licenses and ID cards must meet minimum standards which include information and security features that must be [...]

Danger assessment

Excerpted from
DANGER ASSESSMENT
By Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Ph.D., R.N.
Copyright 1985, 1988, 2001
Several risk factors have been associated with homicides (murders) of both batterers and battered women in research conducted after the murders have taken place. We cannot predict what will happen in your case, but we would like you to be aware of the danger [...]